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2020-10-13, 07:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVIII: Being yourself can be dangerous
OK, odd question: did Google delist the Goblins Animated Campaign? I suddenly can't find it through the search engine. Does this happen to anyone else?
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2020-10-13, 11:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVIII: Being yourself can be dangerous
try looking up "goblins animated Indiegogo", first result for me.
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2020-10-13, 12:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVIII: Being yourself can be dangerous
Now it's working for me too. Odd, maybe Google was updating its listings. Well, better this way.
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2020-10-16, 10:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVIII: Being yourself can be dangerous
And now we get to see Complains's side!
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2020-10-16, 11:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVIII: Being yourself can be dangerous
Im seriously expecting him to get dropped just because he wont shut UP about how she smells to him. Also, I think he is going to go all rules lawyer over this. "COULD" I be a good chief? Of course! I "could" also be a terrible one. Or an average one. Or above and below average as well for other options. These are some really dumb and pointless questions.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2020-10-16, 12:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Mage avatar by smutmulch & linklele.
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2020-10-16, 01:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVIII: Being yourself can be dangerous
Definitely seems like this segment serves to critique their own writing, especially with the "seems a bit contrived but whatever" line. In a way, it's almost too meta.
Also, that's a terrible question. A better one would be a "Why" question: "Why would you be a beneficial chief for your clan?" It automatically requires him to be introspective in a way that can't just be answered with a simple "yes" or "no".Characters I've enjoyed playing for more than four sessions:
Falgar the Swiftblade
Revain Sumeth, Whip Fighter Extraordinaire
Malvin Firel, Cleric of Corellon, Destroyer of Undeath
Vongur Dorent, Primeval Champion of Poverty
In defense of the Vow of Poverty
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2020-10-16, 02:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVIII: Being yourself can be dangerous
Ok, that’s an awful question, from the meta context of being ‘on the character sheet’. Being on the character sheet implied to me that it is a simple, stat related thing, but outside the normal knowledge of the characters: “what is your strength score?”. Or something straightforward like a name. But this is much more involved, as are all the other things mentioned as being on Nane’s sheet. It’s a background thing, sure, and could be written on a character sheet, but it doesn’t feel like the right sort of question for the set up.
Maybe that’s the point. Maybe the next comic will show Names saying “THAT’S on my character sheet?” But I kind of doubt it. Perhaps I’m being unfair, but the very clunky dialogue lately doesn’t exactly give me high hopes for a well written strip. I’m mostly still following out of bored curiosity and habit at this stage.Evil round every corner, careful not to step in any.
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2020-10-16, 05:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Yup, it definitely sounds like a note in the backstory. "He could make a fine chief." I've got to say, Fumbles should try out summoning some character sheets, like Young and Beautiful did at the beginning.
Unrelated, but, to me, Complains always felt like the real leader in the narrative.Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2020-10-16, 09:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-10-16, 11:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVIII: Being yourself can be dangerous
Seventeen days since the last one. It's going a little bit slower for the past couple updates but an average of once every 2-3 weeks is a pace I honestly never expected to see again in my lifetime.
That makes update number 12 of the speedy schedule!
I'll add my agreement to the others. It's an obvious question. I would suppose the answer would be something like "I could but my father would be better" and the angel disagrees saying Complains would be a great chief, and they argue and it turns into a fight, where he gets her horn, which doesn't stink like the rest of her, I guess. She pins him down, makes him chief, all done.
I wonder if Elli is stretching this out due to the positive feedback of the character. I was kinda thinking only one of the goblins would be getting the future stuff, but it's looking like all of them might be doing the full question/answer?
I'm finding this arc a little dull.
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2020-10-17, 06:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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I dont think its being stretched out because elli thinks its going great so much as I think its meant to be a power up excuse before they go to hell. they need some levels if they want to even survive long enough to enter the place. And there has to be a justification for it beyond them just all going up a level. So a nice "rp" scene to get some exp and in complains case, get a weapon that would actually help in hell as well as a level. Im pretty sure level 5 is still kinda low for the setting but better than 4 I guess :p.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
Translation: "Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe."
"If you don't get those cameras out of my face, I'm gonna go 8.6 on the Richter scale with gastric emissions that'll clear this room."
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2020-10-17, 07:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVIII: Being yourself can be dangerous
I guess the question about being a chief is because Complains was destined to bear the jeweled crown of Aquilonia upon a troubled brow. *cough* Sorry, wrong story. But there has to be something about future destiny in the character sheet. Even goblin's names often signify their unavoidable fate (Dies Horribly, Saves a Fox etc.) so the tellers have to take that information from somewhere.
In a war it doesn't matter who's right, only who's left.
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2020-10-17, 08:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-10-17, 10:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-10-17, 10:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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In a war it doesn't matter who's right, only who's left.
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2020-10-18, 12:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-10-18, 12:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-10-18, 02:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-10-19, 10:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-10-19, 11:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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Thanks to Linklele for my new avatar!
If i had superpowers. I would go to conventions dressed as myself, and see if i got complimented on my authenticity.
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2020-10-19, 03:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-10-19, 06:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVIII: Being yourself can be dangerous
at thirty i think you've got another good ten years or so before that applies. with the wonders of medical science, thirty is the new twenty and whatnot.
after that though, expect to spend two-thirds of your natural lifespan as an elder. the downside to the wonders of medical science. Forty is not the new Thirty. Forty is still forty.Avy by Thormag
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2020-10-19, 08:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1955
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2020-10-19, 08:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVIII: Being yourself can be dangerous
In a war it doesn't matter who's right, only who's left.
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2020-10-20, 06:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hark! An avatar drawn by Kate Beaton!
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2020-10-20, 08:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-10-21, 02:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-10-21, 06:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVIII: Being yourself can be dangerous
Isnt she going to put him through the ceremony "to make a point" though? My guess is that he bitterly answers that its a stupid question because he's not a goblin anymore and cant be chief no matter how good a job he could have done at it.
“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2020-10-22, 12:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins XVIII: Being yourself can be dangerous
If Ellipsis has the bad taste to say Complains' alignment is actively evil now because his response to "the heavily armed mass murdering brigand who killed most of our friends for profit and has never indicated seeing anything wrong with doing so is not at this moment attacking us" was "I'll kill him before he resumes being dangerous," I will...continue to be pissed off about that. Which I already am. So she has nothing to lose by writing it, really.
Edit: But the question is "beneficial chief," not "good chief."
What if two are above 14, but the other one's 3?Spoiler: ExampleLast edited by Kish; 2020-10-22 at 12:21 AM.
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